Giovanna Fletcher: ‘My most embarrassing moment? At the TV Baftas I went arse over tit’
The author and podcaster on young love, chips and curry sauce, and her husband’s selective hearing
December 2023
A Christmas that changed me
A Christmas that changed me: at seven, I won a magical trip to Lapland with Chris Tarrant
We slept in log cabins, went ice fishing and found Santa, all of which was broadcast live. When the producers asked me to sing Silent Night, it was the start of my career
October 2022
Flashback
McFly’s Tom Fletcher looks back: ‘People threw things at us in the street. These days, they just want to say something nice’
The songwriter turned children’s author recreates an old photo and talks about the calm after his wild boyband days
December 2020
'My coolness has disintegrated': how pop stars cope with fatherhood
Pop’s mothers have told of guilt, loneliness and record-label prejudice – so do men face the same problems? Wayne Coyne, Ghetts, Thurston Moore and others respond
November 2020
TV tonight
TV tonight: the return of pop-rockers McFly
The boyband are back with a new album and documentary examining their time away from the spotlight. Plus: the story of David Crosby. Here’s what to watch this evening
October 2020
The return of McFly: will the cheeky pop-punkers finally get their due?
Despite being dismissed as teenage girl fodder, the millennial outfit were influential for a generation of bands
July 2020
Kat and the Band review – unlikely adventures of a wannabe pop mogul
A teenage fan persuades her idols to let her manage them – before it all goes wrong on a tour of the Cotswolds
January 2017
My family values
Tom Fletcher: ‘Dad wanted to be in a band. I’m living his dream’
The singer and children’s author on his many family creative influences, fatherhood and depression
April 2016
No direction: have boybands hit the end of the road?
With One Direction on hiatus and the latest manufactured outfits tanking, the future looks bleak for pop’s permabuffed princelings. Perhaps it’s time to bring back the dance routine …
March 2015
Children's books
McFly's Tom and Dougie tell jokes about poo and dinosaurs on Red Nose Day
Children's books
Why we can't live without books in pictures and words
December 2014
McBusted: Busted + McFly = one of 2014’s most unlikely pop stories
Peter Robinson: How three Busted stars teamed up with their counterparts in McFly to become one of the year’s biggest successes
November 2014
McBusted: debut album review – adolescent sentiments
Beyond McBusted: predicting the mix-and-match stars of tomorrow
How to write a boyband hit – by One Direction's songwriters
Music blog
Bobbing for boobs, branded tattoos and rude snacks: it's Jackass-inspired japery at the McBusted press conference
October 2014
Music blog
S Club 7 reunion: testing the power of pop nostalgia
The 90s pop act are getting back together for charity. Should the recent appetite for reunions give them hope of another bite at fame, asks John P Lucas
September 2014
Children's books
How to draw… a pooping dinosaur
Children's books
Tom and Dougie's top 10 poop stories for children
April 2014
McBusted review – pop conglomerate are more than the sum of their parts
Flying on stage in a DeLorean, the new axe-wielding supergroup are funny, idiosyncratic and ridiculously smart, writes Peter Robinson
